Several Tony Mack associates to be sentenced in Sept.

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, left, is driven in custody into the federal courthouse in Trenton, N.J., Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, after agents arrested him earlier Monday as part of an ongoing corruption investigation into bribery allegations related to a parking garage project that was concocted as part of an FBI sting operation. Also pictured is FBI Special Agent William Doyle. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

TRENTON – Ousted mayor Tony Mack and his convicted brother have been behind bars for weeks. But not so for all of the accomplices who pleaded guilty and ratted out the mayor to the feds.

Ever-ailing Joseph “JoJo” Giorgianni is still free to watch old movies at home. Mary Manfredo is still making cheesesteaks at the shop that doubled as oxycodone headquarters.

Charles Hall III, who was in on the mayoral bribery scheme as well as the unrelated drug case, was free earlier this month to see one of his sons in court.

But federal prosecutors said they are all going down in late September when they must appear before U.S. Judge Michael Shipp for sentencing on their guilty pleas to bribery and drug charges.

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Up first at 9:30 the morning of Sept. 25 will be Giorgianni. Best known as “JoJo,” he’s one of the most colorful figures in Trenton crime history, an obese and wheelchair-bound convicted sex offender who bankrolled Mack’s successful campaign for mayor, but turned on him in the end.

Hall, Mack’s friend since boyhood, also testified against him by admitting he collected bribe money for the mayor and also made more cash on the side peddling pain pills for Giorgianni. Hall goes before Shipp the next day.

Manfredo, Giorgianni’s long-time caretaker and the actual owner of the steak shop, became a key federal witness, testifying that she saw Mack take a wad of cash from JoJo inside the eatery at the top of Calhoun Street in April of 2012.

Slated to appear Sept. 29 at 10 a.m., Manfredo was grilled by Mack lawyers about what she might have been promised in return for her testimony. How much time is shaved off her sentence for her cooperation is strictly up the judge, she testified.

Another already sentenced to prison for his role in the oxycodone dealing is 32-year-old Anthony DiMatteo, who got 87 months in prison and a $1,000 fine. DiMatteo told the feds he got the pain pills from Giorgianni, Manfredo and Hall.

Five others, including 47-year-old Joey Scordato Hamilton, also already have pleaded guilty to roles in the pill scheme and been sentenced to prison or house arrest.

According to sentencing guidelines, Giorgianni could get more than 12 years in federal prison for his guilty pleas to two counts of extortion, conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and weapons offenses, including possession of a gun by a convicted felon.

Giorgianni has appeared in court in a wheelchair with an oxygen tank rolling at his side – a scene reminiscent of 1980, when Giorgianni showed in court claiming he was too sick to continuing serving time for debauching the morals of a 14-year-old girl in the back of the steakhouse in 1978.

The “quarter-ton sex offender,” as he became known across America, was released from prison briefly on medical grounds, which the Mercer County prosecutor ended up getting overturned after detectives found video of JoJo without medical equipment in a smoke-filled boxing arena.

Giorgianni, 64, is now under house arrest until sentencing, free to sit home and watch old movies that sometimes can be heard on the porch by visitors.

As before, he refused to answer the door when The Trentonian knocked earlier this week and asked to talk about old films, like the Hitchcock thriller that played in the background at the shop while JoJo told an FBI informant wearing a camera that all bribes should be funneled to Mack through him.

Hall, whose father and uncle were influential retired Trenton police detectives, could get up to eight years in prison for his guilty pleas to extortion and conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.

Counted on the payroll as a meter reader, 50-year-old Hall functioned as aide to the mayor, and his son played youth baseball with Mack’s boy. In testimony, it came out that an exchange of cash set for one of the boys’ games never went down.

Manfredo, 64, could get nearly six years for her guilty pleas to charges stemming from a federal probe that said 12,000 oxycodone pills were peddled from JoJo’s between May 2011 and June 2012.

As she has since she was a teen, Manfredo works every day at the business, which she explained at trial that she owns even if the steakhouse namesake owns the building and the rest of the ramshackle rental houses on that side of Calhoun.

Manfredo is camera shy. Through her appearances in downtown Trenton for the Mack case, she dodged photographers and covered her face.

Earlier this week, 4-foot-6 Manfredo darted behind a truck and hustled into one of the rental houses when she spotted a newsman with a camera outside the steakhouse.

At trial last year, a federal jury convicted Tony Mack of extortion, bribery, and mail and wire fraud. His brother, Ralphiel, also was convicted of extortion and bribery for his role in the scheme.

In June, Tony Mack reported to a low-security federal prison in West Virginia to serve a sentence of 58 months, almost five years. A week before Mack’s arrival there, his brother reported to a federal pen in Ohio to serve 30 months.

Editor’s note: The original version of this story identified Charles Hall III’s son incorrectly and has since been removed.